An exhibition catalogue for a massive traveling retrospective that celebrated John Cage, his collaborators, influences, and influence on twentieth Century culture. The catalogue / object functions as a loose grouping of fifty pieces of printed ephemera laid in, with no hierarchical order. The primary texts include include; Paying Attention by Anne d'Harnoncourt, nothingtoseeness by Julie Lazar, John Cage in the Social Realm by Laura Kuhn, UNCAGEDWORDS by Joan Retallack, Cage and Counting by Mark Swed, Anarchy by John Cage, An Autobiographical Statement by John Cage, Macrobiotic Cooking by John Cage, The Agenbite of Outwit by Marshall McLuhan, What Should I Eat? by Andrew Weil, M. D., Chronological Table of John Cage’s Life by Ellsworth Snyder, Zen and Dhyana by Daisetz T. Suzuki, The Dancer and the Dance by Merce Cunningham in conversation with Jacqueline Lesschaeve, and a Director’s Forward by Richard Koshalek of MOCA. Artists’ work in the show (but not necessarily in the catalogue) included Cage, Josef Albers, Antonin Arthaud, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Cornell, Willem De Kooning, Maya Deren, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Arshile Gorky, Peter Greenaway, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein, Franz Kline, Sol Lewitt, Kasimir Malevich, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Isamu Noguchi, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Harry Partch, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Erik Satie, Jean Tinguely, David Tudor, Cy Twombly, Edgar Varese, La Monte Young, et. al.
Silkscreened aluminum box with loose, printed contents laid in. Designed by Catherine Lorenz.